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The Archives: Unpublished Black History via The New York Times
From The New York Times: Unpublished Black History By RACHEL L. SWARNS, DARCY EVELEIGH and DAMIEN CAVE Revealing moments in black history, with unpublished photos from The New York Times’s archives. Every day during Black History Month, we will publish at least one of these photographs online, illuminating stories that were never told…
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Visuals of Kendrick Lamar Taking Front and Center at the Grammy’s | Music History
Watch Kendrick Lamar’s 2016 Grammy Performance Here
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Kadir Nelson’s Tribute to the Harlem Reniassance, Now Published on the Cover of The New Yorker
From The New Yorker: Kadir Nelson, this week’s cover artist, wanted to create “a stylistic montage as an homage to the great Harlem Renaissance painters.” Read more about his inspiration here: http://nyer.cm/xVq5AxM
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Willi Donnell Smith, The Most Successful Black Designer in History
From Cosmopolite: Willi Smith was declared by fashion writer, Liz Rittersporn, with the New York Daily News in 1987, as indisputably, “the most successful black designer in fashion history”. Willi Smith, founder of Williwear in 1976, increased his sales from $30,000 to $25 million in his first year in 1986. His line was featured in…
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A Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (LIVE) “American Fault Line: Race and the American Ideal”
From Bam: Wed, Mar 16, 2016 | 8pm LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House RUN TIME: 1hr 30min TICKETS START AT $35 + View Online Stream (Free) Ken Burns & Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in conversation with Michel Martin Documentarian Ken Burns and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., join together to…
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Web Exhibit: Intergrating the Life of the Mind | African Americans at the University of Chicago 1870-1940
From The University of Chicago Library About this Exhibit: Exhibition Dates: September 2008 – February 2009 Integrating the Life of the Mind: African Americans at the University of Chicago, 1870-1940 From the late nineteenth century onward, African Americans have pursued studies in undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs at the University of Chicago. By 1943…
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Back in the Day- View Short Animated Homage to ‘The Wire’
From Elliot Lim: “I designed and animated this piece as an homage to my favorite show of all time, HBO’s ‘The Wire’” says the creator of the piece. The music in this short animation is entitled “Way Down in the Hole” by The Blind Boys of Alabama. Check out more of Lim’s work on his…
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Watch the Audacious Nate Parker in PTSD short film, ‘LU’
From Shadow and Act: Directed, written and produced by Korstiaan Vandiver, the film is also produced by myself (Dwight Wilson II), Kimberly Vandiver & Kevin Kinsey. The project, titled “LU,” stars Nate Parker as a PTSD veteran who is haunted by a tragic incident during a fire fight in Iraq, and is based on a…
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Culture Type Picks: Best Art Books of 2015
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FINDING YOUR ROOTS: The Stories We Tell
From PBS.org/FINDING YOUR ROOTS FINDING YOUR ROOTS The Stories We Tell Preview: Kara Walker View Online Here: http://www.pbs.org/video/2365637418/ Watch a clip from Finding Your Roots: season three, episode one with Kara Walker. Rating: NR
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